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> > Data-centric: The whole Schema crowd, who tend to see XML > documents as > equivalent to hierarchical databases It probably depends on the use of the term "database", but "equivalent to" is probably too strong a comparison. With XQuery, certainly, XML documents start becoming more like databases, but I would wager simple data serialization/deserialization using XML is by far the most common data-centric use case at this time. I would also say that data documents tend to be normalized: look at how JDK 1.4 bean encoding serializes hashmaps, for example. I don't know that avoiding duplication of data components would be as much cause for concern among doc-heads.
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